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“He is just a wonderful father and husband,” McCoy said. “Give him help and don’t just send him away.”

She broke into sobs when telling about the couple’s 3-year-old son asking when his father was coming home.

Prosecutors argued that Lloyd was not thinking about his family when he held a hotel clerk at gunpoint and grabbed about $250 in cash.

“Mr. Lloyd does what he wants to do when not in secure custody,” said Assistant District Attorney Steven de Lemos.

He called Lloyd a threat to society.

In earlier sentencing testimony, de Lemos had shown jurors the patrol car video of Lloyd cursing at a police officer during an arrest for public intoxication on Oct. 17, 2008. At the time, he was out on bond for the robbery charge.

Police allege that, while in custody, Lloyd threatened to shoot a New Braunfels officer the next time he had the chance.

“He’s talking about finding God now. He’s talking about changing his life. That’s easy to say when you’re locked up,” de Lemos said.

The DA recommended from 40 to 50 years for the robbery, or at least more than 10 years without probation.

Jurors sentenced Lloyd to 15 years.

Lloyd was taken into custody for transport to prison. He also faces up to an additional 10 years in prison if convicted of a third-degree felony retaliation charge for threatening New Braunfels officers on Oct. 17, 2008.